Cloud License Consumption reporting in SAP for Me Customer Insights

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The contractual license consumption is an important part in getting overview on the usage, adoption and consumption topic which will be explained below.  

You can access the section License Consumption in  ‘Customer Insights‘ dashboard  from the Entry page using the relevant 'Summary' card below or by using the section “License Consumption” in the Tab Menu.

This section displays your contractual license consumption for all measured license metrics across all available public-cloud products. The contractual subscriptions and the license consumption have been put into a relation to display the consumption percentage grouped into following types: 

• potential over-consumption (used more than 100% of subscriptions),
• potential under-consumption (low consumption < 20%)
• regular license consumption (20% - 100%),
• measured consumption without any subscriptions.

The first graph displays the total number of license metrics across all products and the proportion of license metrics with certain characteristics based on the consumption type. It shows how do you consume your subscriptions for purchased public cloud products. All metrics are grouped by the extend to which they are consumed, so that you easily can see over-consumption or low-consumption.

A special case with the consumption without subscriptions is displayed separately. This can happen, e.g when some demo licenses were used for a new product. The product has not been purchased but the demo licenses have not been de-activated.

Selecting the segment of the first chart you can review e.g. all metrics belonging to a Consumption Type, e.g. metrics with potential over-consumption. The second graph and the table will be updated accordingly.

In the second graph you can overlook all consumption metrics grouped by Solution Area to see in which solution areas you might have potential over-consumption or where you could increase your consumption to get more value out of your subscriptions. By selecting the segment of this graph you can select e.g. the metrics with low consumption in a solution area and check the details in the table.

Using the filter for the Usage Type you can focus only on metrics with an over-consumption or on the metrics with low consumption across all products.

Using the filter “Metric ID” you can select single metrics you are interested in.

The “Adapt Filters” feature allows you to define other available fields as filters to slice and dice the content according to your needs.

The table displays all license metrics with additional details: number of subscriptions for each metric, link to the metric description and documentation, the measurements of consumption etc.. The report date displayed in the table is the date on which the last updated consumption data was sent from the license utilization data collection. The table shows the last metrics for the latest measurement date. 

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